"酸辣汤是北京菜吗？"

Translation: Is hot and sour soup a Beijing dish?

[JamesLick]

usually translated as hot and sour soup

[Patrick_Dark]

Yes. It's strange that they have "hot and sour soup" in the tooltip, but disallow it in the answer.

[jeroen.donkers]

Indeed, in other sentences they require hot and sour soup

[EricMartel8]

In fact, I had the same concern.

[Jacques439990]

Such inconsistencies are legions in this program. I don't know when they ll fix this!!

[waltcamp45]

You refer to this as "hot and sour soup" in other exercises. Please be consistent.

[DaveLommen]

If you want Duolingo to read your comments, you should report them, not put them in this section.

[JamesLick]

I've reported it several times but it hasn't been fixed.

[DaveLommen]

Mentioning it here may help to vent your frustration, but it will probably not get it fixed any faster.

[CharlesE780046]

But it will help other learners understand errors in the Duolingo app

[hippietrail]

there is no way to report them when you get the answer right because you can see what their mistake is. Especially when they don't provide tiles for entering it correctly but they do provide tiles that allow you to guess what they want you to say.

[RichardWrigley]

"Is hot and sour soup a beijing dish?"
There is a lot of inconsistency in the naming of this soup!

[KX3.]

There is no "official name" then, the course should accept all variations.

[hippietrail]

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=hot+and+sour+soup%2Csour+and+spicy+soup&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Chot%20and%20sour%20soup%3B%2Cc0

[DarrylYong]

This course is so exasperating.

[jacobareed]

agree, this is horrible.

[hannsrobert]

UGH GOURMETS ARE WORST COURSE EVER

[SantaRPG]

Not only do they not let me put "hot and sour" but "spicy and sour" is also rejected. Reported 8/26/18

[ElGringoMamado]

I reported it too.. this kind of thing is very annoying

[jerome10000]

Pretty sure we call it hot and sour soup almost universally in English.

[JamesLick]

I've seen the other variants used, but you are right that "hot and sour soup" is by far the most common translation.

[slss-ssl-ss-sss]

So is it a Beijing dish?

[KX3.]

It originates from Sichuan 四川 as far as I know but it has variations in Thailand (tom yam/yum), Cambodia, Vietnam (canh chua), Japan, the Philippines, and Beijing.

[mb505]

Literally getting every question wrong the first time around.

[Simon299426]

Inconsistent. On all other tests, the translation for 酸辣汤 is given as "hot and spicy soup", yet here it is marked as incorrect. I'm aware of the literal translation but can we please make it consistent throughout. I'd like to test my ability to understand the Chinese sentence, not my ability to memorise random English sentences. Reported 25th November 2018.

[Lexie218004]

I just commented that the literal translation should be 'sour and spicy soup'. But as it has just been marked as incorrect and should be 'hot and sour soup'. So I remember my 'mistake' and wrote 'hot and sour soup' and now it is incorrect as well. This lack of consistency is driving me NUTS!!!

[MichaelLe3139]

Duo didn't accept my "sour & hot" soup, but it's "sour & spicy" soup here?!

[hannsrobert]

WTH I ANSWERED " IS SOUR AND HOT SOUP BEIJING DISH" BUT I WAS WRONG CURSE YOU DUOLINGO.

[Tom815821]

everyone is complaining about the English translation... but the voice pronunciation is totally off on the 酸辣汤! fix your tones!!

[Lodus2]

No it is not.

[xiaofeiha]

food =dish

[juanluisme845441]

酸辣汤是北京的菜吗。。。should be accepted

[wgss.ca]

stupid duolingo just make up names for dishes

[vvHills10]

it aint reveresd

[Jacques439990]

Spicy and sour instead of sour and spicy make it a "wrong"... Wtf!? That bird has a screw loose... 他媽的！